Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1943 — Page 6

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the opening of a program to hein grocers operate under wartime

KEY ATTU PASS SEIZED BY U, 8,

Trapped Japs Are Being ~ Pounded by Bombers,

Navy Reveals.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (U. P).— American troops have captured Sarana pass, gateway to the Chichagof harbor area where the trapped remnants of Japan's Attu island garrison have been pounded from the air by army bombers, the navy anfounced today. This announcement followed disclosure by Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson that the two main American invading forces are now merged and are concentrating their power against the enemy in the Chichagof area trap. Stimson said U. S. castialties so far have been relatively light. The capture of Sarana pass, effected yesterday, indicated that the final phase of the battle for Attu fsland was imminent. At the same time, the navy revealed that guns on supporting American ships on Tuesday cleared @another pass, through the ridge southeast of Holtz bay, where only Japanese snipers had remained after our ground forces had captured the pass and the surrounding heights. The navy reported that the plane runway which the Japanese had under construction in the Holtz bay gector, was now in possession of the American troops.

WOMEN TO TAKE ON FIRE-FIGHTING JOBS

CHINO, Cal. (U. P.).—One more heretofore exclusively male profesgion appears to be giving away by War necessity to being taken over Py women. This is that of the professional fire fighter. Fire Chief Arthur Wagner, with the ranks of his fire fighters decimated by wartime demands, has asked permission of the city coun¢il to train women fire fighters. Ten have already signed up for preliminary training.

GLASS TANKS HAVE COMMERCIAL USES

WASHINGTON. — Glass tanks Made of new heat-treated plate jass are now available for use in he industries, particularly for chemical, textile, photographic and electroplating uses. Joints are held by 2 new material developed for this purpose. The heat treatment gives the ank a physical strength four or| times greater than ordinary] « glass and it has a high re«stance to rapid changes in temperature.

DEVELOP ALCAN ROUTE The national park service is asgisting the war department in an orderly development along the Alaska portion of the new Canadian-

ally receding.

Hoosier Heroes—

PRIVATE DIES IN AFRICA FIGHTING

Man Is Reported Held Prisoner by

Italians. (Continued from Page One)

Local

of war in Italy, the war department announced today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Bracken, R. R. 16. Cpl. Bracken, who is 24 was first reported missing Jan. 31. A letter received Wednesday by his wife said that he was being taken to Germany for internment. He is a graduate of New Augusta high school and was an employee of the Allison Engineering Co. Cpl. and Mrs. Bracken have an 8-months-old daughter. # = = 8S. SGT. ROD L. BAESKE, Ft. Wayne, was one of 167 men listed as Italian prisoners today by the war department.

(Germany)

CPL. WAYNE WOODRUM, Lebanon, is a German prisoner. He was last reported in North Africa.

71 BILLIONS ASKED

Driving conditions in Sunshine Gardens, southwestern Indianapolis, were still not the best this morning as is evidenced by the car docked near this partially submerged house. Flood waters are gradu-

City's Sewers Choked by

Flood: Streets Damaged

costs there will be sustained by private industries, however. Bumpy thoroughfares, flooded during the past week, will be bumpjer than ever following the crisis. Churning waters have washed away street shoulders in some areas and improved as well as unimproved streets are in the crumbling stage. This will mean repaving jobs on many avenues and grading projects on others. Water pressure has opened up new chuck-holes and made others deeper and wider, city engineering authorities say. Damage to city parks and golf greens at Coffin and Riverside is still untold, but Park Secretar, Lloyd Pottenger has reported that some park structures probably have been undermined. Others, moored down by ropes, were saved from becoming driftwood. City bridges so far have held up in good shape, the engineers reported. Mr. Campbell said it appeared that some damage may have been inflicted on abuttments. Levee leakage has also been slight. Private property, of course, has

CANAL WAS SOUGHT BY MILES STANDISH

SAGAMORE, Mass. (U.P).—A

BY F. D. R. FOR ARMY

WASHINGTON, May 20 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today asked! congress to provide the war department with the largest fundsin history—$71.898,499,700—for worldwide offensives in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The army air forces alone would get more than $23,000,000,000.

U. 8. BUILDS FOR WAR

War construction activity in 1942 more than doubled the 1941 volume and amounted to more than 97 per

Alaskan military highway.

cent of the program for the year.

lot of people thought George Wash[ington was farsighted when they read that, while commander of the Continental army, he suggested the digging of a canal across Cape Cod. But it develops that even in Washington’s day the idea was old. Records show that the idea of a Cape Cod canal first was advanced by Capt. Miles Standish of the Pilgrims. It wasn’t until 1909, however, that August Belmont, using a silver spade, turned the first earth for the huge canal which later was purchased by the United States gov-

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borne the brunt of the flood damage. Cost of repairing water-logged homes here will undoubtedly run into high six figures, officials predicted.

INDIANA DENTISTS HONOR DR. MITCHELL

Dr. E. L.. Mitchell of Indianapolis is chairman of an advisory council of the Indiana State Dental association to work with the national association on the physical fitness program for 16 and 17-year-olds. Others named to the council at the association’s concluding convention session yesterday are Dr. William H. Crawford, dean of the Indiana university school of dentistry, and Dr. J. B. Carr, Dr. G. T. Gregory and Dr. Denzil C. Barnhill of Indianapolis. State officers reappointed by the trustees are: Dr. E. E. Ewbank, Kingman, secretary-manager; Dr. William Bogie, Vincennes, treasurer; Dr. Guthrie P. Carr, Lafavette, executive committeeman; Dr. George E. Guse, Rushville, supervisor of clinics; Dr. H. W. Mason, Indianapolis, master of exhibits and Dr. H C. Dimmich, Ft. Wayne, editor-in-chief. The 1944 convention will be held May 15-17 in Indianapolis.

ernment.

FRENCH SEIZE ISLE IN MEDITERRANEAN

LONDON, May 20 (U. P.).—

MIDWEST CROP DAMAGE RISING

82,000 Now Homeless as Overflowing Streams

Cover Vast Areas.

By UNITED PRESS Flooded creeks and rivers of the vast Mississippi tributary system backed up over wide areas of bottomland in six Midwestern states today, driving at least 82,000 persons from their homes and causing crop damage which mounted hourly. Armies of police, militia and volunteers manned dikes and levees in a battle to stem rising waters in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. The Mississippi already had overflowed its banks above and below St. Louis. Verne Alexander, regional hydro-

logical officer for the Kansas City, Mo., weather bureau, said he be-| lieved the gauge on the Mississippi

just below the Missouri's mouth would go above 37 feet as the Missouri torrent poured in. He warned that, if the big river tops that mark, levees of the Mississippi between that city and Cape Girardeau would be wiped out.

60,000 Ordered to Flee

At least 10,000 were homeless in Illinois. In northeastern Oklahoma 60,000 were instructed to move when unprecedented pressures forced the opening of the flood gates of the Grand river dam. Three drownings were reported in Missouri and one in Oklahoma. An estimated 3,000,000 acres of

farmland already were under water

in the 500-mile flood belt. A survey of flood-stricken areas showed:

Ilinois—Illinois, Sangamon and Wabash river levees collapsed at Peoria, Hustonville and Lawrenceville, inundating corn crop areas. A large contingent of soldiers was sent from Camp Ellis, Ill, to repair the Illinois river sea wall at Beardstown. An Illinois terminal railroad bridge collapsed at Riverton, compelling Springfield war plant employees to travel 50 miles to reach factories 20 miles away. At Mount Carmel a 28-foot crest on the Wa-

bash exceeded all-time records by

one foot. Power Plant Menaced

Missouri—All 12 flood gates were |

OPA Ceilings May Force

Some Groceries to Close

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the Washington OPA office, and telegrams, long distance phone calls and letters are flowing from the local office of the Indiana Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association to congressmen and OPA officials. B. L. Tharp, secretary of the retail grocers association, today confirmed the report that some of the retailers’ prices are below their actual cost and stated: “Grocers are bewildered by the numerous, sudden, complex and unintelligible OPA regulations. The OPA meth-

ods threaten the very existence of the independent food industry, and hundreds of grocers are threatening to close.” Indiana grocers and meat dealers will seek a solution to their problem Sunday when they meet at the Claypool hotel for a one-day conference. Among the be

speakers will

Charles Mitchell, regional rationing!

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opened wide at the giant Bagnell §

dam on the Lake of the Ozarks, but the lake was spilling thousands of

French naval forces have occupied|in8 8 hydro-electric plant at Bag-|

the island of La Galite in the| nell

Army engineers predicted |

Mediterranean 25 miles northwest of | that the Missouri river valley would |

Bizerte, a French

communique | be flooded from bluff to bluff at the |

broadcast by the Algiers radio re- point of juncture with the Osage in

ported teday. La Galite was a defense outpost

central Missouri,

Oklahoma—Grand river dam of-|

of the Bizerte naval base but was|ficials ordered the dam flood gates|

neutralized when Franco-American| troops captured the port from the land side.

opened Tuesday night, spilling 280,-! 000 feet of water per second into the river valley.

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director of the OPA at Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. R. M. Kiefer, sec-retary-manager of the National Association of Retail Grocers. Mrs. Kiefer will report on meetings of congressional committees, OPA, war food administration, and other government agencies. John Dillon, teacher traiger at| go Indiana university, will announce

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